here. much more on all that ravens excitement coming straight up. >> as the show has gone on on this purple friday a playoff purple friday crowds are bigger in hanover and now kids are out. >> i know. it's a good morning out there. more donuts they eat the more fun they have right? >> what's the chances of us getting donuts back here. >> slim to none and slim left the house. >> we will have to run down there. here's what's going on. it's not bad out there. 35 at the airport. 38 in annapolis. 44 in town. where woo we in comparison to yesterday? 4 -- were we in comparison to yesterday morning? 40 degrees. our washington, d.c. network radar and maryland's most powerful radar is showing scattered showers down to the south. they stay to the south for a good duration of the morning. but after the lunchtime hour a

few showers. 9:00, 38, 43 around lunchtime. but the deal is a lot of clouds and showers will be in the forecast around the 4:00 hour and going into 7:00 cloudy skies and temperatures staying mild and just know we could see a little fog develop after the midnight hour. we will talk about a big warming trend in the 7-day forecast coming up in just a little bit. let's talk traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: we are dealing with a serious crash in carroll county. two people have been flown to shock trauma with life- threatening injuries and route 97 is shut down that's going to be right between old liberty rolled and bartholow road. heading out on 795 this is what it looks like at could bys mill road no delays. it's nice and clear right now as you make the push from westminster pike down to the beltway and that stretch will take you 10 minutes. now if you are heading out to 695, the west side nice and clear. here's what it looks like at liberty road. just 8 minutes on the outer

loop from 795 down to 95. and the inner loop will be clear up through pikesville. no delays on the east side. looking at an 11-minute ride on the outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83. and we have a crash on the northbound shoulder of 95. right at the ramp that's going to be to dundalk avenue but no delays in the area southbound lanes going to be clear. four minutes from route 43 down to the beltway and it will be clear as you make the push down towards the fort mchenry tunnel. that's your abc2 timesaver traffic. now over to you. a few minutes after 6:30. no doubt this is one of the toughest flu outbreaks in recent memory. it's so bad that it's forced a school district in oklahoma to shut down. nearly a quarter of the kids have fallen ill and the district will do a professional cleaning disinfecting lockers and water fountains and desks. official hope to give the kids the weekend time to recover and keeping them away from each other to maybe lessen the spread of the virus. parents of the sick kids are

urging others to get their children to the doctors. >> people i don't think are going to the doctor. i think they are thinking well, it's just whatever is going around, i don't need to go to the doctor. you need to go to the doctor. it's something that is nasty. >> nasty indeed. here in maryland health officials are getting ready for what could be one of the worst outbreaks. 2400 people have been diagnosed and the season has not hit april yet. that's usually the peak time of the year. here at abc2 we are working to keep you and your family healthy at our website. find where you can get a flu shot and read up on six things to never touch if you don't want to get sick and see what's out there for the flu. we have a quiz on whether or not you could be susceptible with symptom and foods that you want to think about eight, abc2news.com -- eating. that's ba. c -- abc2news.com. many of you are planning to watch the game on tv, but onegroup is heading out to

denver. b-more around town put together a trip to the playoffs and linda so is live where the party has been underway for nearly two hours. we have heard everything from a cheer seeing dancing and what he next? >> reporter: i don't have anything for you. that dance what can top that. that's awesome. listen. they brought out the dj for this pep rally. fans are heading to denver in about an hour. joining thus morning is brian who is heading to denver. you hopping on the plane in a little bit now aren't you. >> as soon as we finish up in few minutes, we are heading to the airport to get our group together and head to din roar. >> reporter: -- denver. >> reporter: how many are go. >> 20 this morning and 10 at the hotel and then tonight and tomorrow we have over 100 people at our purple tailgate party in downtown denver and the tailgate tomorrow. >> reporter: tomorrow you have something special planned for those ravens players. >> yeah. the plan is for the group we are staying in the hotel with the players so we will be kind of around in the purple and we

will be having a ravens send off tomorrow morning as they board the buses and head to the stadium to beat denver. >> reporter: what do you think it will feel like to watch ray dance out of the tunnel. >> i hope he dances out of the tunnel. after all the flak he got i don't know he will dance if denver until after the game. but, i think he will get a dance down this and he will be dancing in new orleans this year. >> reporter: awesome. well, guys have a great time i know you will. tons of ravens fans are there and jamie costello is there. these guys are hopping on the plane in about an hour heading to denver he. go ravens. >> linda so live this morning. this should be cool, tonight the baltimore marriott water front hotel will have a laser show as a tribute to the ravens. the image will be that of ray lewis doing that, trademark dance. it's at 15 floors up so you can imagine how big this is going to be and loop continually the starting at 5:30 and goes until 9 tonight.

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your mind. this is romeo a bat that has been given a second chance. his mother and his colony has been wiped out due to extreme temperatures in australia and when romeo was found he was dehydrated and thanks to wildlife volunteers caring for him, he is expected to be okay. today on katie a beauty experiment. meet a woman who rejected cosmetics and went without hair and makeup for a year. >> i can never leave the house without my lipstick and eye line and i go to bet in makeup. >> i let me family and close friends see me without makeup but very few other people. >> it was not the only thing on women's minds. some concessions were unusual. >> oh my strangest beauty habit is extra. [audio not understandable] no light minimumies. >> others -- minis. >> others scary. >> i was red from being waxed and there was a burn mark on my

leg for two weeks. >> i once got my eyebrows waxed and got shingles. >> i got my hair dyed before i was in london and when i went home my hair was turning green and the dye was coming out. >> my craziest sal op is when idied my hair blonde and it went almost bald so it's to got the extensions. >> some women spare no expense altering their looks. >> i spend probably about 500 on beauty products a year. >> 2,000. >> 1200. >> 600 dollars. >> in the name of beauty. >> man it's tough being a woman. >> oh. hair falls out, 1200 dollars a year, mayonnaise. >> eyebrows waxed and get the shingles. >> wow. >> that's at 4 on abc2 women go without makeup and they go without getting their hair done a beauty experiment. >> we get 3 or 4 days off and most guys like the fact guys

you know this you like you don't have to shave. we go the other way. >> all right. listen to this. ravens fans all over the country even in denver. >> abc2 news jamie costello is in the mile high city caught up with the fans extremely excited about tomorrow he's game. you will hear from them. mike. >> jamie said it's cold out there. go figure. nothing on this shot. how about the 60s on the weekend? we will talk about it coming up. >> reporter: there are no delays on 695 here at old court road. but we are following a serious crash in westminster that shut down route 97. i will have the details coming up on good morning maryland.

this is your abc2 news to g i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. we begin with lauren cook. >> reporter: we are dealing with a serious crash in carroll county. two people have been flown to shock trauma with life- threatening injuries. eye happened around 3 this morning and continues to shut down route 97. it's between old liberty road

and bartholow road. stick with an alternate. no problems to report on 795 from westminster pike to the beltway and 695 at liberty road, traffic is moving along. no delays heading down to route 40. and in parkville, the outer loop starting to pick up. looking at a 13-minute ride so not too bad. travel from 95 up to 83 and inner loop is clear down to 95. that's a look at your abc2 time saver traffic. and mere's meteorologist mike masco with a look at forecast. >> the outer loop gets me. 4 # in town right -- 44 in town right now. we are starting off kelly and temperatures about 4, 5 -- chilly and temperatures about 4 or 5 degrees cooler than yesterday morning. it's all about the warmup that's on its way for the weekend. a lost clouds today. showers will develop a little after lunchtime and then a foggy friday night going into tomorrow morning. but the mild temperature into

the 60sthis weekend. we will show glout seven-day forecast -- show you in the seven-day forecast coming up. the deal to hit the fiscal cliff hits your paycheck beginning today. congress didn't re-up on the payroll tax holiday. social security deckss go from 4.2 to 6.2%. most of us will lose around 40 dollars a paycheck. and that's 80 dollars a month. equivalent to a tank of gas. 6:47 right now. when should we use the death penalty? governor o'malley has come out in favor repealing it but later today, delegate mcdunna will introduce five bill mandate to use the capital punishment including cases of mass murder, the killing of a law enforcement or correction officer and murder for hire and serial killers -- killers. he is use the sandy hook school shooting as the basis for the argument. bus driver bust for blowing through red lights -- busted for blowing through red lights. >> it was blown oup by our abc to investigators -- abc2 new

investigators. >> sherrie johnson is live innorth baltimore and the move a hold them accountable took a huge step forward. >> reporter: that's right. we are at northern parkway and york road. that is busy intersection. a lot of cars and buses travel through here. and one thing they have here is red light cameras as you can see right here. there is a new push to hold school bus drivers accountable for running red lights. last year abc2 investigators showed the red light camera system caught school buses running red lights. this prompted the baltimore city council to step in. school system operates its buses but employs several contractors and those companies are not required to report violations the drivers get to the school system. baltimore city councilwoman mary pat clarke introduced a bill to requiring citations given to school bus to be submitted to the mayor, council members and the department of education four times a year.

it passed through a committee last night. some of the contractors at this meeting say it's hard to keep track of drivers in a bus when a citation was issued. >> who is in a yellow cool bus? the littlest elementary school children our special needs children, the most vulnerable children in our whole city. >> i drive buses and i drive myself and you can see them flying by like they are driving a race car. it's a major problem in baltimore city. >> reporter: the bill now moves ahead to a vote on full city council which should happen within the next few weeks. reporting live in north baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. denver may be 1700 miles away from baltimore but you will see lot of purple in the stadium. tomorrow abc2 news jamie costello will be reporting live tonight and tomorrow from the mile high city and found a fewfans who are pumped up for the game. >> reporter: good morning. rain fans from baltimore have

made their trek west to denver. >> i am so exciteded. i seriously have been so preoccupied. i can hardly work because i keep thinking about the events we are having and being at the game. >> it's so encouraging to have -- i feel like family is coming and i feel like a piece of my heart is coming back because it's hard being town by denver broncos fans my denver friends it's encouraging to have ravens nation here. >> we we move out we cut the house from federal hill but so when we came for ravens games we wouldn't have to walk so far to the stadium. the house is a parking spot for sunday moose this is captain crabby's crab cake. i ran into hill and -- him and he fried up a crab cake for me. >> reporter: oh. >> the best crab cake i've had p denver. >> feels like home. everybody is getting together and we have a ton of things going on. get to meet the other people that moved out here and i love it. >> reporter: ravens fans will continue to flock into denver

today and later this afternoon, the baltimore ravens will arrive. here in denver, jamie costello, good morning maryland. >> a local art teacher is using love of painting and the ravens to benefit her students. laura teaches at harve degreat midstel school and to raise money for the art -- havre de grace middle school and to raise money for the art program she paints pictures of the ravens players and she gets them signed and auctioned off and it the money goes back to the schools. >> if i have the supplies i need it maximum my job better. we love ravens and ray lewis and it was a great job and we wanted to support the art department at havre de grace middle. >> she raised 1200 dollars so far for desks and art supplies for the program. drug dealers will use some of the most unique ways to protect their products and case in point check out what police found at a home in california. this gator known as mr. teeth was in a plexiglas tank, 34

pounds of weed. the homeowner is on probation and office deers a routine check with they bumped into mr. teeth. the gate oar was taken into custody by animal control. five things to know on this friday. a man accused of killing people in colorado movie theater is set to be arraigned today. but the defense may try to delay it. they say james holmes is not ready to enter a plea. a judge ruled that there's enough evidence to send the case to trial. vice president joe biden says on tuesday he is going to give the president a set of recommendations to curb gun violence. the proposals are said to include a universal background check for gun buyers and banning assault style weapons. judge will hear requests to exsoup the body of a lottery win here died by cyanide poisoning. he was found dead just weeks after winning a million dollars. so far no suspects have been neighed. -- named. we will get an update from the cdc. 41 states reported widespread

flu activity and emergency rooms are swamped. schools are closed and dozens of people died from the virus. president obama is meeting with afghan president karzai today. it's going to happen at the white house. they are going to discuss u.s. troop presence in afghanistan after 2014. there were talks of leaving a few thousand soldiers there but the white house is considering pulling all of them out. we enjoy temperatures in the 60s this weekend, other parts of the country are feeling the rathe of mother nature. winter weather advisory in the mornings are mosted from california to michigan and the arctic blast dumped snow on southern california shutting down busy interstates and it's going to be a chilly weekend for people in louisiana who are cleaning up after a tornado. and a rash severe weather hit there. more rain is expected throughout the gulf region so it's a mixed bag mike when you look across the country with weather. >> and now maryland's most accurate forecast. >> yeah. here we go. that close to home beautiful

shot again sunrise around 7:23. we are at 44 in baltimore city. going to the airport 35. outside the beltway a little cooler than that. notice again a lot of clouds across the area right now. there's the storm system charley mentioned that spinning up the mild air down to the south. that will be on the move. you noticed outer fringes of the showers work through roanoke and that's a part of the warm front at that will move in. that will bring in a mild blast of air as we head into the weekend. 62 right now in hot lanta georgia. savannah at 57 degrees. that's a mild push of air and towards the rockies and hit mile high city. don't get used to 37 because you will be well on your way into the 20s for game time. spending of, look at the cold blast out to the west. jamie costello, oh, boy, 21 around the 4:00 hour into the teens as you go into game time on saturday. back closer to home while they are into the 20s out west, we are getting to 60. blended sunshine and clouds and a little early morning fog and then it's nice and mild into sunday. 67 degrees. a little cooler but

unsettledgoing into monday and tuesday and wednesday. let's check the roads hey lauren. >> reporter: we have a crash to tell you about on route 50 right along eastbound lanes at route 197. expect delays in the area. and traveling in carroll county we are dealing with a very serious crash. two people flown to shock trauma in fact. that shut down route 97. this is going to be between old liberty road and bartholow road. it's expected to be closed throughout the rush. stick with route 32 or 27 as an alternate. this is 95 downtown as we check in and look live at 395. traffic is moving along no problems through the tunnels. as far as the beltway outer loop slowing down in parkville and will take 14 minutes on the outer loop from 95 up to 83. so you may remember twiggy the famous water skiing squirrel. when twiggy is not making movies it's entertaining visitorsality events like the

denver boat show. he is a broncos fan. his owner dressed him up in a mini broncos life jacket ahead of the game saturday. >> crazy. >> why are we showing this. >> hot? >> we are not worried. this water skiing squirrel has nothing on ray's dance. ray lewis has everybody busting a move ahead of tomorrow's game. scuba divers at the national aquarium in baltimore doing his signature dance under water. it was their way of saying thanks to the original raven. i was doing says the squirrel probably wears the same size jersey as manning so there you go. >> tweet that out to the friends out in denver later on this morning. >> no. no. >> the denver viewers in baltimore. >> real quickly on the road this morning keep an eye on what's going on expect delays. >> reporter: in carroll county route 97 shut down. so i will keep you update on facebook. until then. >> come on.